DHL hires Mozambique national to head its Kenya operations

The appointment comes two years after a sister company to the logistics firm lost a lucrative local warehousing contract to a French firm. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Logistics firm DHL Global Forwarding has appointed Agnaldo Laice as its country manager for Kenya.The company in a statement Tuesday said Mr Laice, a Mozambique national, would “leverage his expertise to further strengthen the performance of DHL Global Forwarding in Kenya.”

The appointment comes two years after a sister company to the logistics firm lost a lucrative local warehousing contract to a French firm.

DHL Global Forwarding, formerly known as DHL Danzas Air & Ocean, is a division of Deutsche Post DHL that provides air and ocean freight forwarding services.

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The move which affected its 300 employees stationed at EABL’s Ruaraka headquarters came after the brewer gave the warehousing job to Bollore Transport and Logistics Kenya, a subsidiary of French multinational Bollore.

EABL, which is 50.02 per cent owned by UK-based brewer Diageo however, retained DHL as one its transporters in a change of guard that brought to a close a lucrative contract the German logistics firm had held since 2011.